Commit-ID:  d141babe4244945f1d001118578e0eb3ce12729d
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/d141babe4244945f1d001118578e0eb3ce12729d
Author:     Byungchul Park <byungchul.p...@lge.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:56:00 +0900
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:19:01 +0200

locking/lockdep: Add a boot parameter allowing unwind in cross-release and 
disable it by default

Johan Hovold reported a heavy performance regression caused by lockdep
cross-release:

 > Boot time (from "Linux version" to login prompt) had in fact doubled
 > since 4.13 where it took 17 seconds (with my current config) compared to
 > the 35 seconds I now see with 4.14-rc4.
 >
 > I quick bisect pointed to lockdep and specifically the following commit:
 >
 >      28a903f63ec0 ("locking/lockdep: Handle non(or multi)-acquisition
 >                     of a crosslock")
 >
 > which I've verified is the commit which doubled the boot time (compared
 > to 28a903f63ec0^) (added by lockdep crossrelease series [1]).

Currently cross-release performs unwind on every acquisition, but that
is very expensive.

This patch makes unwind optional and disables it by default and only
records acquire_ip.

Full stack traces are sometimes required for full analysis, in which
case a boot paramter, crossrelease_fullstack, can be specified.

On my qemu Ubuntu machine (x86_64, 4 cores, 512M), the regression was
fixed. We measure boot times with 'perf stat --null --repeat 10 $QEMU',
where $QEMU launches a kernel with init=/bin/true:

1. No lockdep enabled:

 Performance counter stats for 'qemu_booting_time.sh bzImage' (10 runs):

       2.756558155 seconds time elapsed                    ( +-  0.09% )

2. Lockdep enabled:

 Performance counter stats for 'qemu_booting_time.sh bzImage' (10 runs):

       2.968710420 seconds time elapsed                    ( +-  0.12% )

3. Lockdep enabled + cross-release enabled:

 Performance counter stats for 'qemu_booting_time.sh bzImage' (10 runs):

       3.153839636 seconds time elapsed                    ( +-  0.31% )

4. Lockdep enabled + cross-release enabled + this patch applied:

 Performance counter stats for 'qemu_booting_time.sh bzImage' (10 runs):

       2.963669551 seconds time elapsed                    ( +-  0.11% )

I.e. lockdep cross-release performance is now indistinguishable from
vanilla lockdep.

Bisected-by: Johan Hovold <jo...@kernel.org>
Analyzed-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Johan Hovold <jo...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.p...@lge.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: amir7...@gmail.com
Cc: ax...@kernel.dk
Cc: darrick.w...@oracle.com
Cc: da...@fromorbit.com
Cc: h...@infradead.org
Cc: idryo...@gmail.com
Cc: johannes.b...@intel.com
Cc: kernel-t...@lge.com
Cc: linux-bl...@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsde...@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux...@kvack.org
Cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org
Cc: o...@redhat.com
Cc: t...@kernel.org
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508921765-15396-5-git-send-email-byungchul.p...@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  3 +++
 kernel/locking/lockdep.c                        | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt 
b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 0549662..f20ed5e 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -709,6 +709,9 @@
                        It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
                        or memory reserved is below 4G.
 
+       crossrelease_fullstack
+                       [KNL] Allow to record full stack trace in cross-release
+
        cryptomgr.notests
                         [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
 
diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index e36e652..160b5d6 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -76,6 +76,15 @@ module_param(lock_stat, int, 0644);
 #define lock_stat 0
 #endif
 
+static int crossrelease_fullstack;
+static int __init allow_crossrelease_fullstack(char *str)
+{
+       crossrelease_fullstack = 1;
+       return 0;
+}
+
+early_param("crossrelease_fullstack", allow_crossrelease_fullstack);
+
 /*
  * lockdep_lock: protects the lockdep graph, the hashes and the
  *               class/list/hash allocators.
@@ -4863,8 +4872,14 @@ static void add_xhlock(struct held_lock *hlock)
        xhlock->trace.nr_entries = 0;
        xhlock->trace.max_entries = MAX_XHLOCK_TRACE_ENTRIES;
        xhlock->trace.entries = xhlock->trace_entries;
-       xhlock->trace.skip = 3;
-       save_stack_trace(&xhlock->trace);
+
+       if (crossrelease_fullstack) {
+               xhlock->trace.skip = 3;
+               save_stack_trace(&xhlock->trace);
+       } else {
+               xhlock->trace.nr_entries = 1;
+               xhlock->trace.entries[0] = hlock->acquire_ip;
+       }
 }
 
 static inline int same_context_xhlock(struct hist_lock *xhlock)

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